Muya language

Munya or Muya (simplified Chinese: 木雅语; traditional Chinese: 木雅語; also Manyak 曼牙科, Menia 么呢阿; Tibetan: མི་ཉག, Wylie: Mi nyak, THL: Minyak) is one of the Qiangic languages spoken in China. There are two dialects, Northern and Southern, which are not mutually intelligible. Most research on Munya has been conducted by Ikeda Takumi. There are about 2,000 monolinguals.

Muya
Munya
Native toChina
RegionSichuan
Native speakers
Eastern: 2,000 (2020)
Western: 12,000 (2020)
Dialects
  • East
  • West
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
emq  Eastern Minyag
wmg  Western Minyag
Glottologmuya1239
ELPMuya
Muya is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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